doperative writes: Six Scottish windfarms were paid up to £300,000 to stop producing energy, it has emerged. The turbines, at a range of sites across Scotland, were stopped because the grid network could not absorb all the energy they generated.

"...the grid network could not absorb all the energy they generated." Sounds to me like the electric grid was poorly engineered. That, or they might need to make some eco-fanboy's dreams come true and shut down some "dirty" power plants to offset the output of the wind turbines.